</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Tom A:
<strong>Amen Ed!
In the Army, holsters were issued through the clothing depot and pistols through the HWA channel. Co-insidental dates would be exactly that, a function of random chance.
Having said that, as always with toggle tops, there are exceptions: many contract pieces have dated holsters that co-inside with the pistol date; likewise it is not uncommon, relatively speaking, to encounter Weimar Navy pieces with holsters serialed to the gun and have the same manufacturing date.
As a military logistician for 22 years, I can assure you that this was not done in the Army by design. In the Navy, it was done for a potentially wide variety of reasons, not the least of which was a "Sole source" contract to provide a simple solution to the fleet's problem of needing handguns.
Matched holsters to pistols provides no COMBAT POWER, so it would not be a consideration by the OKW general staff.
American collectors tend to get hung up on bogus theory and hype from those who are trying to squeeze a few extra bucks out of a deal. Lets work to educate the masses.
Tom A.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">
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